Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue-water man, Morison dishes out most of his criticism to the other services. He pans Army brass for not pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...
...largest diocese (3,000,000 Roman Catholics, including many practicing Communists); of a heart ailment; in Rome. Son of a Papal Swiss Guard, Cardinal Schuster entered a Benedictine monastery at eleven, in 1929 became (at 49) the youngest prelate in the College of Cardinals. An outspoken, early supporter of Mussolini's Fascism (he hailed the invasion of Ethiopia as a "triumph of the cross of Christ"), he was pro-Ally in World War II, in 1945 acted as intermediary in unsuccessful surrender negotiations between Mussolini and the partisans. After the war, he became a leading figure in Italy...
...Mussolini, by Paolo Monelli. A sharp likeness that makes the would-be Caesar look like a buffoon (TIME...
...Gasperi spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican library, filing index cards and acting as a receptionist. He stretched his $80-a-month salary by doing German translations at a nickel a page. Surreptitiously, he also kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats. When Mussolini fell, a small but well-organized Christian Party was ready. In December 1944 De Gasperi became Italy's Foreign Minister. A year later he was Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could buy a new blue suit...
...knew kings (Edward VII), premiers (Clemenceau). dictators (Mussolini), marshals (Foch) and famed writers (d'An-nunzio). Charlie Chaplin's gambit at the Paris première of The Kid was not unlike that of many others: "I loved you in New York. You were France, Versailles. You conquered America...